"Company was pretty good on my end, too." As much as he'd have liked for Malcolm to be home and safe. Comparatively speaking. He just had to hope that the kid wouldn't do something stupid and try to run off by himself to get Gil back somehow, that he stayed to find out there was more than one person in trouble.

He shakes off that line of thinking, focusing on Meredith again. "I don't think anyone's really a fan of kidnapping. I'm Gil. Lieutenant Gil Arroyo, I'm with the NYPD."

No past tense for him. He might not have bothered with the title, usually, but things like that can help settle people.

Unintentionally, unwillingly, his focus snaps to the kelpies as they gut the seal and it bellows in response. He grits his teeth, forcing himself not to fight the ropes, not yet. He doesn't stand a chance of getting them off yet, for one thing, and--

There's a woman in that seal.